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The Progress Test of the European Hematology Association: A New Tool for Continuous Learning.
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The Progress Test of the European Hematology Association: A New Tool for Continuous Learning
The European Hematology Curriculum, first launched in 2006, was created by the European Hematology Association (EHA) with the aim of harmonizing hema tology training in Europe. Its goals were to define the different areas hematologists are expected to cover during their training, and to establish the minimum recommended levels of competence that a hematology trainee should attain. EHA's education platform (EHA Campus) offers opportu nities for continuous learning for both trainees and specialists. Content is guided by the European Hematology Curriculum, which provides a structure for individual study and self-assess ment. To complete this organized learning environment, a tool for objective assessment of knowledge during and after specialist training was needed. In the spring of 2020, EHA started offering a progress test: a longitudinal test based on equivalent evalua tions given at fixed intervals, assessing developments in knowl edge. The EHA Progress Test was inspired by an earlier version developed by the Swedish Hematology Association in 2013, which has become widely used by specialist trainees and spe cialists in Sweden. Noticeable pedagogical effects, like targeted study efforts in weak knowledge areas, changes in clinical rota tions, and more have been reported in personal questionnaires
Selection of unidimensional scales from a multidimensional item bank in the polytomous Mokken IRT model
An automated item selection procedure for selecting
unidimensional scales of polytomous items from multidimensional
datasets is developed for use in the context
of the Mokken item response theory model of monotone
homogeneity (Mokken & Lewis, 1982). The selection
procedure is directly based on the selection procedure
proposed by Mokken (1971, p. 187) and relies heavily
on the scalability coefficient H (Loevinger, 1948;
Molenaar, 1991). New theoretical results relating the
latent model structure to H are provided. The item selection
procedure requires selection of a lower bound
for H. A simulation study determined ranges of H for
which the unidimensional item sets were retrieved from
multidimensional datasets. If multidimensionality is
suspected in an empirical dataset, well-chosen lower
bound values can be used effectively to detect the unidimensional
scales. Index terms: item response theory,
Mokken model, multidimensional item banks, nonparametric
item response models, scalability coefficient H,
test construction, unidimensional scales
Selection of Unidimensional Scales From a Multidimensional Item Bank in the Polytomous Mokken I RT Model
Nonparametric polytomous IRT models for invariant item ordering, with results for parametric models
invariant item ordering, item response theory, nonparametric polytomous IRT models, parametric polytomous IRT models,